Eagles will work out kickers with Caleb Sturgis hurting

Coach Doug Pederson said during his Monday press conference that the Eagles will bring some kickers into their facility this week for workouts.

Caleb Sturgis was injured during Sunday’s victory over the Redskins and did not come on to kick an extra point after the team’s final touchdown of the game. He delivered a short kickoff after that score and Pederson said that the team was going to look at kickers in the event Sturgis can’t play in Kansas City next Sunday.

According to a report from Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, that’s expected to be the case. Rapoport reports that Sturgis has a quad strain in his plant leg and is set to miss several weeks as a result.

6 responses to “Eagles will work out kickers with Caleb Sturgis hurting”

Andrew Franks is a decent kicker and he’s also one of the most seriously intelligent players in the NFL (he’s a biomedical engineer from RPI). Many in Miami were surprised when they took Parkey to replace him. Franks beat out Sturgis to get the Dolphins kicking job 2 years ago.

How is it that the Eagles can’t get through the season w/ a healthy kicker? Half of the kickers in this league go through their entire career without getting hurt and this is like the fourth year in a row that we’ve sustained an injury at that position. Creepy.

Ironically, Sturgis got his job with the Eagles from one of these workouts, when Cody Parkey got hurt. I don’t know how the guy goes through all of OTAs and training camp (think of how many kicks he must have had) and then injures himself on the opening kickoff of the season. The worst thing about this is that unless they put him on IR, they have to cut someone from the roster in order to sign another kicker.